Giant Sun Print

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We used a large piece of sugar paper as our background, the Pinspiration recommended to use a darker colour and the darkest we had was pink!  This didn't please Little Prince very much, but he soon got over once we started though.  I gave each of the Littlies (and Drama Teen) a piece of A4 printer paper and some scissors and let them loose cutting shapes.  We didn't have any repositionable glue so we used small pieces of blue tack to stick the cut out stencils as closely to the paper as we could.  Then we sellotapted our creation to one of the patio windows, to wait while the sun does its work.

OUR VERDICT
Everyone had fun cutting and sticking their designs to the paper, especially Princess Lollipop whose greatest ambition is to use scissors!!  I will add another picture once our Sun Print once it has faded, which given the weather has turned cloudy and overcast could take quite a while!!

WHAT WE'D DO DIFFERENTLY NEXT TIME
Unless our Sun Print doesn't work at all, I don't think we'd change very much at all.  All THREE Littlies (including not so little Drama Teen lol) had a lot of fun cutting and sticking their shapes, and they are excited to see how it turns out :-)

Cookie Ice Cream Bowls TAKE TWO

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We used he same UK Recipe as yesterday as taste had not been the problem, just my absentmindednes!!  I was more organised and before we even started I weighed and measured and made sure I had ALL our ingredients out and ready!!  This time it was just me and Little Prince making the dough, so it was a little less hectic!  We made the dough into both cookie bowls and into ordinary flat cookies.

OUR VERDICT
Once again the cookie bowls just spread all over the upside down muffin tin.  Despite copious amounts of greasing, I still couldn't manage to remove the baked dough in one piece, in fact it just came out in small lumps!  However, the flat cookies we made turned out very well and were very tasty :-)

WHAT WE'D DO DIFFERENTLY NEXT TIME
I think we'll give up on trying to make bowls and we'll just stick to cookies!!  At least they turned out well!!

Cookie Ice Cream Bowls

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OUR PINSPIRED CREATIONI decided that we would use a UK recipe for soft choc chip cookies, both so that I wouldn't have to "translate" the recipe and also so that the Littlies were more likely to enjoy the familiar taste.  Our experience with Jelly Biscuits was a bit of a disastrous start to our weekly baking challenge, so I'm trying to make this time a bit more successful :-)  We weighed and measured, sifted and mixed and then put our "bowls" in the oven to cook.  When checking the recipe to see what temperature to set the oven to, I noticed to my horror that we'd forgotten to use eggs!!!  No wonder the mix was too crumbly and I'd had to add milk!!  There was no way to rescue it by now, so we cooked it anyway to see how it turned out.

OUR VERDICT
It was a MESS!!!  The eggless mix had spread all over the upside down muffin tray, and despite all the greasing I'd done it was stuck solid!!  Despite this the Littlies wanted to try and eat some, so they broke off some pieces and ate them - they were declared tasty :-)  So not a complete disaster, but pretty close!!!

WHAT WE'D DO DIFFERENTLY NEXT TIME
I'd get all the ingredients out and weighed before the Littlies got involved, and I'd make sure not to forget any ingredients!!!